The August Marvel solicits just came out, including one for Captain America 29. (Since 26 is due out next week, apparently with CW and FS over, Cap is back on a monthly schedule, yay!)
The cover features, among others, the always-awesome Sharon Carter. Sharon has always been portrayed well in Cap, but up until now you could wonder if that was because she's always been in the unisex SHIELD uniform, as in this cover for Cap 22. Here she's out of uniform, wearing a rather Emma-Peel-ish white unitard with shoulder cutouts and a dipping neckline (but, oddly, no cleavage to speak of, possibly because she's not sticking her chest out), and definitely ready to take a shot at whatever evildoer comes her way. Sexy, but not overtly sexual.
Actually, although Cap doesn't feature many female characters, when they're there they tend to be done well, as with Spitfire in the London section of the Red Menace storyline. Even the villainous, underage Sin, daughter of the Red Skull, who shows more skin than anyone else in the book, doesn't let it get in the way of business (see her appearance on the cover of Cap 28). To some extent she has been the sociopathic Bonnie to Crossbones' Clyde, but the hot always comes after the evil.
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While Sharon comes off well on this cover, I'd have to say that the fact that it includes a black hero being BURNED alive in front of the American flag makes the "done right" part at least somewhat questionable...
:D LMAO That's why the blog's called "Women on covers done right" and not "And how Marvel screwed up by setting the Civil Rights movement back a hundred years by depicting an African-American superhero burning as American iconoclasm.
Wow, you know, that didn't even occur to me in looking at the cover. All I thought about Sam here was that the issue might feature him as the main character, and possibly he's going to meet up with Iron Man. (Tony's probably got a flamethrower in his armor somewhere, he's got everything else.)
I know it's kind of iffy to guess at a comic's content by its cover--I'm assuming here that Sharon is going to be operating outside of what SHIELD assigns her to do, and that Winter Soldier is...well, doing his usual, I guess!
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